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Alfiya Akhmetova

Espoo

Summary

Professional with 15+ years of experience in software development, data analytics, digital marketing and online services. Having experience of being part of leadership team, building and leading teams, developing processes and supporting strategy development. Proven to be quick learner, easy to adopt to a new environment and find ways to cooperate with people.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Solutions Manager

Elisa Oy
05.2023 - Current
  • Acting as Product Owner to the Data Lake and Cloud Lake.
  • Maintaining relationships with internal customers of Data Platform team to ensure successful deliverables.
  • Developing and improving processes in Data Platform teams to ensure smooth collaboration and adoption of industry best practices .
  • Actively participating in process improvements across D&A organization

Head of web development

Elisa Oy
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • In charge of strategic development of elisa.fi domain, and underlying technologies (CMS, recommendation platform, technical SEO)
  • Relevant for the position: I am an active member of end-to-end teams aimed to streamline the usage of ML models in different channels
  • Thus I am very aware of how the data is used by the business as well as what are actual needs and challenges when it comes to articulating how business goals can be supported by data
  • I believe my current experience as well as my certification in PM will help me to facilitate the discussion between BO and the data team in the right way.

Solution Manager

Elisa Oy
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • In charge of the development and operational maintenance of the recommendation platform as well as vendor management
  • As a solution manager for Pega, I took the role of PO for the Pega Capability and Pega Data teams
  • I was responsible for gathering requirements, backlog management, development process governance and project deliveries to the business stakeholders
  • The Pega Data team is responsible for data engineering work for the Pega platform, thus many tasks included gathering specifications for the data projects and data modelling
  • Being an active ambassador of GDPR and data security policies was in my scope too.

Quality Assurance Manager

Cidercone Oy
01.2011 - 01.2017
  • Quality and maintenance management, Processes improvements, Incidents management
  • Lean and Six sigma.

Education

MBA -

Haaga-Helia University
Finland
12.2017

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Joensuu
Finland
12.2007

Skills

  • Product Management/Ownership
  • Team Leadership & Community building
  • Strategy work & Process development
  • Cloudification :Google Cloud platform
  • Data Platforms & Data Engineering
  • Data support for AI, ML, GEN AI
  • Python
  • SQL
  • ML algorithms
  • Google Analytics
  • Kanban/Scrum
  • Jira and Confluence
  • Miro&Figma
  • Online and Digital services
  • Digital marketing and communication

Certification


  • 03/01/2023, Product Management Udacity Nano-Degree, Udacity
  • 03/01/2020, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance
  • 06/2024, Assosiate Data Engineer, Data Camp
  • expected 08/2024, Google Cloud Leader, Google

Timeline

Solutions Manager

Elisa Oy
05.2023 - Current

Head of web development

Elisa Oy
01.2019 - 01.2021

Solution Manager

Elisa Oy
01.2018 - 01.2019

Quality Assurance Manager

Cidercone Oy
01.2011 - 01.2017

MBA -

Haaga-Helia University

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Joensuu
Alfiya Akhmetova